Improvement in coffin-handles



W. M. SMITH.

Guilin-Handles.'

N0.l50,90l. PaientedMay12,1874.

if@ 5y v UNITED STATES VILLIAM M. SMITH, OF WEST MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT,ASSIGNOR TO THE MERIDEN BRITANNIA COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.

March To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. SMITH, of West Meriden, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a newr Improvement inGodin-Handles 5 and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part ot' this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a sectional perspective view, and in Fig. 2 a transversesection.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of the barof coffin-handles-that is, the bar which is grasped by the hand inlifting.

These have usually been made from sheet metal, ornamented by someembossing process, or cast solid, with bolts at each end, or a rodthrough, by which to secure the levers. The first aifords but a limitedornamentation, and the latter are too heavy.

The object of this invention is to produce a highly-ornamental handle,and yet little, if any, heavier than the common sheet metal handles 5and the invention consists in a sheetmetal or tubular base, over which athin surface of metal is cast in a mold, to give the desired form andornamentation.

A is a sheet or other suitablek metal tube, which forms the base orinterior ofthe bar B, the cast-metal surface shown in solid black insection. The mold is prepared for casting the COFFINHANDLES.

l 50,961, dated May l2, 1874; application iied 26, 1874.

handle in substantially the usual manner, except a core-print at eachend. The mold may be of any degree of ornamentation, but of so muchlarger diameter than the inner tube that the exposed portion will besubstantially covered. The tube A is laid into the mold as a core islaid into other molds 5 then lthe metal poured into the mold flowsaround and forms an. ornamental surface upon the tube corre spending tothe mold, and as seen in Fig. l.

If desirable, at points the depressions in the surface may extend to thetube, and thus cause the tube to form the bed or base of ornamenta tion.Thus at small cost is produced a highlyornameutal but light handle.

I do not broadly claim casting ornaments of soft metal upon a hard-metalbase, as such, I am aware, is not new.

This bar constitutes in itself an article of manufacture, as it isadapted to many classes of levers, and may be made and supplied todifferent manufacturers or dealers, to go with certain classes or kindsof levers.

As an article of manufacture, the herein-described handle or liftingbar,consisting ot' the wroughtmetal tube or base A and cast-metal surface Bcast thereon, substantially as specilied.

WILLIAM M. SMIT Il lVitnesses:

J. H. CARRIER, E. E. WEs'r.

